Because lightning was available long before USB-C and there's no reason that hundreds of millions of customers should have to switch to new cables and throw billions of old chargers, wires, and accessories into landfills?
When USB-C is superior for using on phones, then I'm OK with it. But right now it's just exchanging one plug for another because a bunch of bureaucrats say so.
Does this mean in 20 years we'll still be stuck with USB-C instead of something better because just Brussels says so?
Well right now, if you are not fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, you require two cables. That's quite a waste, no?
We're quite lucky no PC manufacturer managed to get as big as Apple is today back in the 80s-90s. There's no way we would have universal RAM, universal Keyboards, universal Video Cards, etc, etc, today, if that was the case.
Standardization is a fantastic reason. Hundreds of millions of people have to switch to new cables, chargers, adapters, and devices every once in a while anyway, and if that never happened, these products would not have advanced. Progress is good. You may argue the environmental point, but there's no reason to connect that with this transition and not the many others.
The resolution doesn't require any specific connector and the implementation would be from a European Commission directive that could be updated as technology evolves.
When USB-C is superior for using on phones, then I'm OK with it. But right now it's just exchanging one plug for another because a bunch of bureaucrats say so.
Does this mean in 20 years we'll still be stuck with USB-C instead of something better because just Brussels says so?